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Attorney Docket No. 12080027.000019 



PATENT 



IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 



IN RE Application of; 
Application No.: 

Filed: 



RUSSELL A. HOUSER 

10/825,786 

April 16, 2004 

For: METHOD AND DEVICES FOR TREATING 
ISCHEMIC CONGESTIVE HEART 
FAILURE 



Examiner: 

□OWE 

Art Unit: 



Katherine Marie 
3734 



INFORMATION DISCLOSURE STATEMENT (IDS) 

Mail Stop After Final 
Commissioner for Patents 
P.O. Box 1450 
Alexandria, VA 22313-1450 

Sir: 



Pursuant to 37 CFR 1.56, 1.97 and 1 .98, the attention of the Patent and Trademark 
Office is hereby directed to the references listed on the attached Form PTO/SB/08. it is 
respectfully requested that the information be expressly considered during the prosecution 

of this application, and that the references be made of record therein and appear among 
the "References Cited" on any patent to issue therefrom. 

A copy of the references as cited on the attached Form PTO/SB/08 has not been 
provided. 

This Information Disclosure Statement is not to be construed as a representation 
that: (i) a search has been made; (ii) additional information material to the examination of 
this application does not exist; (iii) the information, protocols, results and the like reported 
by third parties are accurate or enabling; or (Iv) the cited information is, or Is considered to 



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be, material to patentability. In addition, applicant does not admit that any enclosed item of 
information constitutes prior art to the subject invention and specifically resen/es the right 
to demonstrate that any such reference is not prior art. 

It is submitted that the Information Disclosure Statement is in compliance with 37 
CFR 1.97(b)(3) and the Examiner is respectfully requested to consider the listed 
references. 

This Information Disclosure Statement is filed after the mailing date of a Final Office 
Action or Notice of Allowance, whichever occurred first, but on or before payment of the 
Issue Fee (37 CFR 1.97(d)). Applicant hereby petitions that the information Disclosure 
Statement be considered. 

! hereby certify, pursuant to 37 CFR 1 .97(e)(2), that no item of information contained 
in this Information Disclosure Statement was cited in a communication from a foreign 
patent office in a counterpart foreign application and, to my knowledge after making 
reasonable inquiry, no item of information contained in this Infonnation Disclosure 
Statement was known to any individual designated in 37 CFR 1.56(c) more than three 
months prior to the filing of this Information Disclosure Statement 

Our check in the amount of $180.00 covering the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1 .17{p) is 
enclosed. 



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The Director is hereby authorized to charge any deficiency in the fees filed, asserted 
to be filed or which should have been filed herewith {or with any paper hereafter filed in this 
application by this firm) to our Deposit Account No. 03-1250 {Ret No, 12080027.000019). 

Dated: May 23. 2007 Respectfully submitted. 

B y /Aasheesh Shravah/ 

Aasheesh Shravah 

Registration No.: 54,445 

SILLS CUMMIS EPSTEIN & GROSS, P.C, 

One Rockefeller Plaza 

New York, NY 10020 

(212)643-7000 

(212) 643^6500 (Fax) 

Attorney for Applicant 



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INFORMATION DISCLOSURE 
STATEMENT BY APPLICANT 

(Use as many sheets as necessary) 



Complete if Known 



Application Number 



Filing Date 



First Named Inventor 



/^Unit 



Examiner Name 



10/825,786 



4/16/2004 



Russell A, Houser 



3734 



Dowe, Katherine Marie 



Attorney Docl^et N limber 



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considered. Include copy of this form with next communication to applicant ^Api^icant's unique citation designatiof^ number (optional. ^See Kinds Codes of 
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Translation is attached. 

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